God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
ALAN BENNETTOne recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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